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October 1, 2024 36 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler is joined by Mario Bailey and Greg Lewis for The Husky Honks as the guys look back at last week’s loss to Rutgers, the coaching issues with all the penalties and mistakes, Michigan coming to town, and match-ups to exploit.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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(00:52):
Seahawks and Huskies put up one thousand and thirty seven
yards of offense over the weekend and lost both games.
What has happened in this city and for different reasons.
Seahawk defense got pushed her on Greg last night. Marios,
you know, was the penalties, the flags, the red zone
offense on Saturday on Friday night in New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
We say it often.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Man, who was the guy that says you are what
your record says you are? We know who they are.
We let them off the hook. Was it Dennis Green?
Whatever Cardinals is said that.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Back in the day?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Right, we knew what that blah blah blah yakayacy. I mean,
my god, this football team should be five to zero, right,
I mean, they outplayed the Cougars, they outplayed Rutgers, and
instead because of poor red zone play calling and execution
and ridiculous penalties greg that continue to haunt these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
They're three and.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Two and it's what we've been talking about for three weeks.
I mean, nothing's changed. They haven't cleaned up the penalties,
they haven't been successful in the red zone, and those
things are keeping them for exploiting all the things that
I wasn't aware coming to see that they were gonna have.
I didn't know this wide receiving core was going to
be this good. I didn't know that the running back

(02:09):
was gonna be this good. And it's gonna be good.
But this kid is an NFL player. The quarterback is
one of the leading quarterbacks in the country in yardage,
completion percentage, no turnovers. He's top ten or fifteen in
touchdown passes. So when you have all of those things
going for you, you expect to be having success. But

(02:29):
it's the penalties and the stupid stuff and not being
able to have an identity around the goal line that's
keeping his team.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
From winning football games.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
And I thought it was gonna be a rebuilding year,
but having watched these five games, they should be five.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
In Oh Mario.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I just had a guy hit me up on Twitter,
Mohammad and says Will Rogers is a huge part of
the problem with the offense.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
What's your reaction to that.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I mean, you look at his stats, like Greg just said,
he's like seventy five completion percentage, he has ten touchdowns,
zero turnovers, he's been sacked six times. You can't look
at those statistics and think he's the problem.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
But when you look at it. We've talked about the
red zone offense.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
It's the quarterbacks job to get the guys in position
and score touchdowns, but it's also the coach to come
with the package and to come with calls that don't
get it that will get us in the end zone.
And you can't have guys jumping off sides. You can't
have the personal foul. So I understand a little bit,
But no, Will Rogers is doing a tremendous job.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
You laughed at that.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
He's eleventh in the nation and passing efficiency, ten touchdowns,
no interceptions. You could go back and say, hey, when
you got Giles Jackson wide open in the back of
the end zone, you gotta get it to him. When
you have Giles Jackson wide open in the corner of
the end zone, you got to get it to him.
But there was some communication are I think Will Rogers
throws a ball to the pylon, Giles bites off his

(03:48):
route a little bit early. That was obviously a miscommunication
between him and Giles. But man, overall, I mean, Will
Rodgers has been everything I think we were hoping he
would be and more.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Will is absolute not the problem.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
And I know people, you know, want to make that
the issue, and that's because of recency bias. They still
have this image of Michael Pinnix in their head throwing
sixty and seventy yard touchdowns left and right, and Husky
scoring forty and fifty points. But again, I think Mario
Wi alluded to this a little bit. There's the factor
of the officeive coordinator that has something to do with

(04:21):
our ability to score, especially down on the goal line.
And you know, there's kind of like two ways you
can go, and maybe there's five. I don't know, but
there's two I can think of. You can either be
a power running team down inside the ten yard line,
where we go we're gonna knock guys off the ball.
We have a strong running back. We're gonna get the
ball into the end zone by running two or three times. Right,
I think our offensive line may not necessarily be that

(04:44):
type of offensive line.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right now, or you can be.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
We're gonna spread them out, make the defense have to
defend sideline the sideline.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
We have a playmaker at quarterback.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
We got fast guys you know in the wide receiver
running back positions, and we're going to try to get
some one on ones and or some dual thread action
and score that way, keep teams off balance that way. Well,
right now, we're not kind of doing either right, kind
of doing both in half of one and half of
the other. And there's no identity. You got to kind
of decide who you're going to be down there and

(05:15):
then work at practice on those goal line plays from
that whatever formation that is over and over and over
and half ten twelve plays that you run, like Mario said,
that package ten or twelve plays out of those formations
that you can score touchdowns in, and we're not seeing
that right Overall, the quarterback here, folks, is not the
problem at all.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, what I can stand Mario about the red zone
stats is there's only one red zone stat for me
that matters, and that's your touchdown percentage. Okay, I mean,
don't tell me about field goal percentage. And they missed
some field goals obviously they were outside the red zone
on Friday. But for example, last year, Washington was number
three in the country in red zone attempts with seventy three.
They had forty nine touchdowns. That's sixty seven percent for

(05:58):
a touchdown percentage. So this year they're at fifty percent.
They're nine for eighteen when it comes to scoring touchdowns.
And Greg mentioned the play calling, Well, the play caller
is the head coach. So do we have a bit
of a disconnect at times between the players and maybe
the guy call the place.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Yeah, I mean I don't want to call coach out,
but that that's where the buck stops as the coordinator.
It's the personnel, the formations that we're using. Greg alluded
to it like if we either we're going to run
this ball or we're going to change the packaging, we're
going to change the personnel, We're going to air it out,
we're gonna run it, We're gonna put these guys in motion,
We're gonna do something. But it looks like we just

(06:35):
have a basic plan when we get down there, or
we have no plan at all when we get down there.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Right by the way, Michigan State has more red zone
attempts than you dubbed us so far. So the lack
of opportunities Greg is certainly one of them. But the
other issue, Look, I mean, every now and then football,
you're not going to make a play, blah blah blah.
You got a bunch of new guys, try to get
on the same page. Okay, fine, the penalties just continue

(07:00):
to plague these guys. And Vincent Holmes, God bless him.
Red shirt freshmen excited he runs off the sideline during.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
A blocks field goal.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
But the other part of that play that not many
people are talking about, and Jed actually mentioned this, I
think on on Monday, is that nobody really reacted to
the opportunity to go get the ball. And it would
have been moot anyway because the guy left the sideline.
But it's almost as if these guys aren't aware of
the rules. Right, You got one guy that's not aware
that you can't leave the sideline, and a defense it's

(07:32):
not aware that, hey, it's a live ball, go get
the damn.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Thing some way, shape or form. These guys were treated
us like it was an extra point. And even on
extra points. They changed the rule back when actually in
nineteen eighty nine nineteen, I think it was eighty nine
or eighty eight when I was playing, that you could
block an extra point and then you could you pick
it up and return it and get two points. But
it's like these guys weren't aware. And again that goes

(07:57):
back to, you know, the discipline part and the being
prepared and how well are we getting them ready during
the week. How do they understand these situations? The coaches,
that's the coaches job. And again this is not a
calling out of the coaches, because I've seen a lot
of people. All the coaches need to be fired, and
you know, Jedfish isn't the guy that's way off. I mean,
he's coached five football games here at the University of Washington,

(08:19):
and again he's had success as a head football coach.
We've seen it. We played against a Jedfish team last
year that almost beat us. So a lot of this again,
you got all these guys coming together. All of that
stuff are issues. But as coaches now you do got
to say, hey, we do have a problem with our
guys and they have to come up with a way

(08:39):
to fix it. And it's got to get fixed because
I looked at the schedule before the year, right and
right now. I picked us to be what what are we?
I picked us to be four and one going into
this game, right, four and one. But the back half
of the schedules loaded with tougher teams, and that's where
it's gonna come. So you got to get this stuff
fixed because if you're going to have an opportunity to

(09:02):
get six to seven you know wins this year, you're
going to have to start winning these closer games.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
No doubt, no doubt. And that's what this team did
a year ago. You know, this is not last year's team.
I think we are aware of that. It's a completely
different animal versus last year. And God, I love college
football for people talking about firing Jet after five grades.
The lunatic fringe in college football is so much bigger
than it is in the NFL. And the NFL has lunatics, don't,

(09:28):
don't get me wrong, but this is and I love it,
to be totally honest with you.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I think it's great, great radio. It does. But we're
going back.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
To Friday, okay, and you had a timeout that you
called that led to a touchdown by Rutgers on the
very next play. You had a block field goal that
was taken off the board that led to a touchdown
on the very next play. I think overall, the defense
played pretty damn good, but there's little moments like that, Mario,

(09:56):
where you wonder what is going on where the defense
is supposed to third and long. They're supposed to be again,
how many times have we had this conversation this year?
Guys in an advantageous position that they don't succeed in.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, you know, when you hear people talk about a
team is supposed to be five and oh, but they're
three and two, You're like, yeah, yeah, our team really
should be five and oh it's our mistakes that have
cost us and put us in this three and two position.
Like our defense, I kept saying on third down. I
think Greg talked about it postgame, like they're coming. Our
defense did not know what to do. We were playing

(10:29):
man to man and we still getting no pressure. It's
been the same thing all season long. If we can't
get pressure, guys are gonna make plays on third down.
Their receivers were doing a nice job getting open, but
what receiver can't get open if you have ten seconds
to throw the ball.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
And also, in today's day and age, you know, offenses
are really sophisticated, and if you're able to get them
in the third and long situations, you know, the hope
is is that you've won this series of downs. But
if you can't make a tackle, if a guy breaks
to tackle, that just destroys all the work that you've
done because you again, here's what I'll say about our defense.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
We only gave up what twenty one points, And.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Today's day and age of college, well's hard to keep
somebody under thirty, right, and we've kept people. We kept
people under thirty every game, every single game. So the
defense isn't a bad defense. It's actually a pretty good defense.
But they've broken down at some crucial times. And the
number one killer in college football and any level football.
I saw it in the NFL this week is a mistackle.

(11:31):
You know why, everybody can do everything right, you can
arrive at that point where you're going to make the play,
and if you don't make that tackle, and when you're
playing a team who has a running back, like say
it again, one guy, that guy, but none guy. This
guy runs hard, he runs fierce, he runs violently, and
if you don't arrive at that point where you're at

(11:53):
the point of attack with the ability to bring him down,
it can destroy great work on first down, second down,
and even then when you're in a position to make
the tackle. But there were some wide receivers who broke
tackles and got those extra yards that they needed for
the first down. So really, right now, with the defense,
it's a matter of making the dang tackle in those
critical situations.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well it gets a second of goal out the four,
you get no points, right, I mean, just they can
see it.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I'm Mario's face.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
I told you, I told you guys. We should have
kicked the field goal there, Okay, fine for it. I
was like, kicked the field goal. Greg was right, we
were wrong. We might have missed it. We might have
missed it.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
You may have missed it.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
But the red zone issues are certainly problematic, There's no
question about that. And I do wonder, honestly, how much
of it is just taking unnecessary chances. Like Greg talked
about fourth and goal, just take your damn three points
and get out of there. It just depends on the situation.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
I felt like we kept running Jonah then like we
had made up our mind, like we talked about, like
they made up their mind. Jonah had got us down there,
so they were gonna run him. And then once they
couldn't get in with the run and they just threw
a generic pass play and got tipped. I just say,
we don't have a goal line or red zone package.
I haven't seen anything different. It feels like I can
call out the pass that they're gonna do. They're gonna

(13:07):
try and hit Giles in the slide on the corner route,
and they're gonna try to hit Denzel on like a
fade route or a post every single time.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Are they missing Quinton Moore? Honestly, in the red zone.
I've never a tight end down in the mid but
I've never thought of him as a great pass catching
tight end, more of a blocking tight end.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
But maybe there's meat on that bone, Greg that I'm
not giving him credit for.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Well, he made a great play in a short yardage
goal life sitiation last year, remember really well, And you
know he's a he's a physically sort of different than
the other guys. He's a little thicker and he's definitely
a little taller. Uh So, maybe that does give you
an advantage. Maybe he's that person that you need blocking
on the edge so that you can run to his
corner or get that big tall guy in the slide

(13:47):
throw jump ball. You know, that's a weapon that folks use.
I know, you know, a guy like me who has
a thirty nine inch vertical unlike a guy like Mario
who has a thirty five minutes right now, and that's
jump right gives in those situations right now, one guy's
like eight to five, other guys like three foot four.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
All right, but it's not even a fact.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
But those are you know, types of weapons that you
you know, could use with somebody like it. You got
to figure out where's your advantage on the goal That's
really the coaching job. On the goal line, where is
your advantage? Who do I have? That's a matchup nightmare
for that defense, and they just haven't found that yet.
It's not the offensive line. They're not blowing guys off
the ball. We saw that against Washington State. You know,

(14:30):
our receivers are shorter guys, you know, no no offense, Mario,
but taller guys sometimes can have that jump or that
that catch radius to the outside. So you got to
find where's our advantage on the goal line. Maybe it's
bringing and maybe our goal line package should just be
the young guy at quarterback who's fast and quick and
can move around and and and cause some havoc against

(14:52):
the defense.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Instead of bringing in for one play on the goal line.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Maybe once we get inside that ten yard line, it's
his package.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Denzel Boston's on for twenty one touchdowns. Assume are you
guys aware of that? I am every time, Okay, Marco's
always aware of any wide receiver ninety two is on
tase for a ninety catch twelve hundred and twenty one
touchdown year. I guarantee you Denzel Boston does that He's

(15:20):
first team All Big Ten guaranteed.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Because nobody else in the Big Ten. I mean maybe
one or.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Two House State probably has a guy, but that's about it, right,
I mean, come on, this is not like the Pac
twelve in their athletes. I mean, these are these are crazy,
crazy numbers. Court Denzel Boston is porting up right now.
So what's the problem? I mean, right, like the defense
you saw overall, if you were to have told me
before the season began that they would have five games

(15:45):
allowing three, nine, twenty four, five, and twenty one, I'd say,
where do I sign?

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Let me?

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Let me read you a statistic.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
U dub is one of eight programs in the Power
four that ranks in the top twenty and yards per
play I saw that, right, and and yards per play allowed.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yet they're three and two right? And the other teams
are Texas, Alabama.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Listen, Texas Alabama, Ohio State, Penn State, Miami, Indiana, Tennessee.
Is there a loss amongst those teams? I think they're
all undefeated. They're all undefeated. The other the other the
other seven teams again, they're techooming.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm gonna give it to you.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's Texas Alabama four, and OH Ohio State four and
OH Penn State Penn State four, and OW Miami five
and OH Indiana Indiana is five, and OL Tennessee Tennessee
is four, and there you go and US three and two.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
So it's go'da be freaking undefeated. So how did they
get here? The penalties, I'm telling you, the mistakes. You
cannot make that many mistakes and win football games. That
is the Achilles heel. And we've been talking about it.
In ability to squad red zone.

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(17:11):
like he's going to be out again for this game
with turf Toe not going to play in the game,
and then Javon Parker tore his Achilles, he's out for
the season.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
And his brother lost.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
His brother is already out for the season, Armand who
hasn't played a snap with his brother yet in two
seasons that you dubbed. So you're gonna go up against
the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday and you're not gonna have
Zach Durfy. You're not gonna have Javon Parker. How concerned
should we be about that matchup? We'll get to that
next with the Honks on ninety three three KJRFM, Now back.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
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Speaker 7 (17:57):
Will Rogers goes out of the shot gun and it's
Adam Muhammad and the ballgame on his right hip snap.
Rogers looking to throw in the pocket, fires over the middle, caught,
Denzel Boston.

Speaker 8 (18:05):
Makes the mad miss. It gets into the second ear
the thirty the left sideline twenty He's going in. Denzel
Boston houses any scores from fifty one yards, the sixth
touchdown catch of the year to lead the Big ten
for Denzel Boston in a career long fifty one yarder
turns the tables.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
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estimate today. Michigan coming in here on Saturday. Guys at
four point thirty pregame twelve thirty from the zone. It's
a sellout, by the way, four and one with the
loss to Texas, and they got clocked by Texas, by
the way in that game. Back a couple of weeks
ago with a win over usc They were hammering Minnesota
on Saturday, but escape with a three point twenty seven

(19:08):
twenty four win. Minnesota had twenty one points in the
fourth quarter and Michigan was leading twenty seven to three
entering the fourth quarter, and they win twenty seven to
twenty four. They got three guys that might be top
ten draft picks next year. Will Johnson, this cornerback might
be the best corner in the country. They got two
of the best defensive linemen in America and Mason Graham

(19:31):
and Kenny Grant. Let's talk about the challenge of facing
this Michigan Wolverines team on Saturday, who, despite all that,
looked pretty damn beatable.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
I mean, you talk about having one of the best
corners in the country, but I think their secondary has
just been average. I saw Minnesota in the second half
exploit some things against Michigan, and you know, we got
three guys to cover, and when they used them correctly,
Jeremiah Hunters made some plays. Jiles Jackson, who's the you know,
Mario Bailey of this day and age at the and

(20:00):
then Denzel Boston, who's the Orlando McKay.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I got all the touchdowns and everything. No, I'm just
giving Mario a hard time. We've been talking about that.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
But I think our offense poses some problems for Michigan
and it'll be great being back into the confines of
Husky Stadium. We haven't had as many penalties playing at
Husky Stadium now the opponent has something to do with that,
But we have not had all the big penalties playing
at Husky Stadium other than the nine that we had
against who's at Northwestern, which again I'm not sure how

(20:31):
prepared these guys were, but you better believe they're going
to be prepared. They're going to be up for They're
going to have a tough, great discipline week of practice.
When you're playing the defending national champs on your home field,
a team that beat you in that game, that regardless
of whether you were here last year or not, and
there are enough guys who were, but I know a

(20:52):
lot and the coaches weren't. You gotta want to have
a good, good representation of Washington Husky football and coming
back from that loss to them in the National Championship
last year. So I think Michigan isn't a great football team.
They're vulnerable their pass offense, thinks I mean, I really am.
There's nothing about their pass offense that scares me. Now

(21:13):
we have Von Parker and Jack Durfy down on our
defensive line, which is already a thin part of our defense.
So it's gonna be a challenge from that standpoint. If
I'm Michigan. I'm gonna run it first down, second down,
third down, come back, run it up first down again.
So it's gonna be a challenge of defensively for us
to really stop their run with that number of guys

(21:33):
heard on the defensive line. So our linebackers are gonna
have to play great. I think we match up with them.
Like Greg said, I don't think Michigan is a great
football team. They're a good football team. We should be
coming into this game.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
As we talked about five and oh, our offense matches
up very well.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
If we come like we did.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
With Rutgers, we had over five hundred yards offensively, we
just had two for maybe twelve on the third down conversions.
We're gonna have to convert on third down. We're gonna
have to do what we do in the red zone.
We're gonna have to come up with some type of identity,
and we're gonna need to give uh our running back
the ball more than sixteen times. He needs to get
the ball twenty times. He got the ball sixteen times

(22:11):
last game and rush for over one hundred and fifty yards. Defensively,
our defensive line is weak and we're gonna be without durfy.
We're gonna be without some of our defensive linemen, and
that's gonna make us struggle because they have two great backs.
One back is already over a five hundred yards, the
others at two point fifty. If they're just gonna run
it down our throats, I think we're gonna be in trouble.

(22:31):
Greg said that their offensive passing game is very HIO
average mediocre at best, and so they're gonna just come
in here and try to run the ball and silence
the crawd.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
We're gonna have to try and get off to a
great start again.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Well, they were one dimensional last year and they kicked
our ash last year.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
They were one dimensional offense, but their defense was more
than Amon, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
And here's the difference.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Here's the difference though, between Michigan's defense a year ago
and Michigan's defense last year. I understand Mason Graham, I
understand Canny Grant. Oh that's great. They got two really
good defensive linemen. But you can scheme away from those guys,
right Michigan last year, guys allowed eight passing touchdowns the
entire year. They're already at ten after five games. The
secondary is very valid. So can they throw the ball

(23:18):
on these guys? Can can Denzel Boston, who, as you
heard Tony say, leads the Big ten in receiving touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
He's number two of the country. That's all Boston's guys.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Come on, hello, I don't think people even realize that
he's number two in the country.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
We can throw the receiving touchdowns. Can they throw the
ball on these We can throw the ball against anybody.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
We have not had trouble throwing the football at all
this year.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think our offensive.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Line, oh, they may not knock guys off the ball
in the run game. I think they've done a great
job in their pass sets, their pass protections, their identity.
There was a couple mix ups in the first game,
but since that time they've got since they've settled in
on who their five guys are, they've gotten a lot
better there. And again, we have a quarterback that is
pulling the trigger right now, the guy who's reading defenses

(24:02):
extremely well. He's throwing on time, he's throwing in the
right spots. Every quarterback misses every now and then, and
unfortunately for him, it's been down near the goal line,
which has been a problem. So we got to shore
some things up there. But not only is Denzel Boston.
I think, like I said, we have Jeremiah Hunter and
we have Jarles Jackson, who are all good ball catchers

(24:23):
and all run good routes.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well, I think that's gonna be the big battle, Mario.
Can they really throw the ball? Michigan is so far
this season, I've got them at one hundred and third
in the country and passing yards per game at two
hundred and forty eight yards per game. Now they are
five point nine to five per attempt, which is pretty
damn good. And it might be a situation where people
are throwing the ball because they can't run on Michigan.

(24:47):
So where do you start. You start with number one
or do you start with number seven?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I still think you start with number one.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Jonah is the man, and you look at it last
week's game and the sixteen, four hundred and fifty hundred
and sixty whatever it was. He's the man and he's
the reason that we can throw the ball. So you're
going to have to start with him. And you look
at last game. Denzel didn't have a catch in the
first half, and for him to do all of that
in the second half of action. Like, I'm still wondering
what the coach is doing because, like I said, Giles

(25:14):
Jackson one game has three catches. Before that, he has seven,
four hundred and fifty. Like, we need to come up
with some type of identity. I'm not sold on Greg's
play action identity. We have to come up with something.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
It is what it is, sexon run in the run
rush defense by the way, Michigan.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, I'm just gonna say, you know, it's not my identity.
It's the Husky identity. I didn't create it. I didn't.
I'm just calling what I see. I'm identifying it.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
But because somebody said, Mario, some decongested do something like
he's underwater.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
You had about a gallon of nightcall dropped off at
the home. Is that gone already?

Speaker 3 (25:55):
That's concerning that you go through that that fast, but
it should be. We may have to have a conversation.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, I think the Huskies will at the game plan
will feature Jonah running the ball about what we've done.
You know, sixteen to eighteen carries the other guys. Again,
you got to add in the carries that the other
backs because Davis got quite a few carries. I don't
remember exactly how many, but there was probably three series
in there where he got you know, handled the ball

(26:21):
out and he was effective.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
He had a good football game.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
So I think we're running the ball enough to really
dive into our play action pass game. And from what
I saw from Michigan, that's where they get hurt. They
get hurt they bite on play action. I'm sure they're
going to be aware of it. We got to reintegrate
our tight ends a little more. I think our production
there has dropped off a little bit the last couple
of weeks where they made some really huge plays early on.

(26:45):
But get the tight end back involved and hopefully that
will allow us to you know, score. We got to
score twenty eight to thirty points. I mean that's where
we got to get to, and right now we're under that.
We get to twenty eight thirty points will win some
football games. Our defense is playing good enough to win
and in today's college football, twenty eight thirty points is
not a ton of points.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
To win this game Saturday. What's the magic number thirty?
You think it's thirty? Yeah, they get to thirty. No
way Michigan can catch him.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
No.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
I think our defense like Greg said, we've been playing
well enough these past this whole season, we've been playing
well enough to win.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Well, Cam Davis had eight carries for forty two yards,
the average for five yards of carry. They keep taking
around with Demon Williams, though, Man, are you still I mean,
you've been banging that drum all year long.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
There's nothing negative that's come out of it. You like
the substitution pattern still to this there's.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Nothing negative that's come out of it because there hasn't
been a time where a drive is stalled because he
came on the field. Now, if someone jumps off size
or commits a penalty, that's not Demon Williams's fault. And
most of his plays have all been positive yards. I
think the lowest result I saw was a three yard
game when he was carrying the football. So I don't

(27:57):
have any problem with it. Again, he's got to play,
He's got to get ready because if our quarterback gets hurt, he's.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
It doesn't the offensive line get used to a certain cadence.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Though by the quarterback, I'm not sure about that, but
I would want to look at him jump outside.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
I want to look at it. Did you not be
sure about that? Wide receiver.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
I want to look at what happens after he goes
back out the game, like, are we scoring?

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Is that stopping the flow? What's gonna happen?

Speaker 4 (28:21):
So what case in point the last time when you
guys were complaining, had he had come in the two
plays then the court, Uh, Rogers came in and completed
a eight yard pass on first hand.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Right after that, Man, that's like nine plays later. You
can't tell me that a guy coming.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
In one play in the middle of drive is gonna
stall out nine plays later, quarterback, I don't want you
coming in.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't want you coming in from he did.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
He did have him on the field first and fifteen
and then three plays later he missed a wide open
Rogers dead Giles Jackson in the end zone for a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
So no, no, no, I'm.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Not blaming Williams for any of that, because is not
forcing Jed to play him.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
I mean, that's the fact that he's when he comes in.
What happens at the end of the drive, all right,
So what about all the drives where he didn't come
in when they didn't score. Who's falls back?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I think that there is a homework assignment that great
can work on and have those numbers for us for Saturday.
The good news for you, it's only been five games, right,
Mario is not asking for this after week twelve. Mario
can look ahead to Michigan again. Man, dog of the game.
Who's gonna be to get this done? And for the
seventy thousand school has begun correct, so the students will

(29:35):
be there right this Saturday.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Back in the end zone.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
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on Saturday. Can't say who it is, but you'll find
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Speaker 1 (29:55):
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Speaker 7 (30:07):
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Speaker 6 (30:11):
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Speaker 2 (30:26):
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(31:39):
and I'm gonna mix.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
It up a little bit here. I'm gonna let Mario
go first. Who will have to be the Darwin's dog
of the game to get her done. I'm going back
with my guy, Giles Jackson.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Hech with Denzil and uh, everybody else saw the different weapons.
I think Giles Jackson has another good game against Michigan.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Former Wolverine, I mean obvious gonna pick the forward wolverinee
the guy who's got a chip on his shoulder from
Michigan because he played there transfer over. It's obvious that
he's all geeked up and wants to have a big game.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Four favorite ob you.

Speaker 8 (32:24):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
In order for the Huskies to win, I'm gonna tell
you the guys who are going to have to have
a good game. Are two inside linebackers and what Bruner.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Bruner has a Bruner has a bad arm. Even pick one,
he's picking two. Absolutely, here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
If both of them are going to have to have
a good game, if we're going to win, not just
one of them, it's got to be both.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
And Bruner's got the bad arm. I can see it
every outter, every tackle.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
He's win scene and that has But hopefully he gets
some great treatment this week. And he's in the training
room and they got you know, the magic stem they
used to have for us that didn't really do anything
ice and the magic stem they used to give us
this little electronic you know, they put the zodes on
you and electricity would go and it was supposed.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
To help you heal faster. I never I never got
anything out of it. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
We got we got ice dim in advild, that was
what they stem, ice stem in advil.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
So hopefully he gets some ice, some stems and advild.
Just like your hangover when they got gallifan Akis with
a taser. No, it's this little thing.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Put these patches on you and this electricity just kind
of goes through, supposed to stimulate.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
You, right, that's right.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Well, let me go Will Rogers and Giles Jackson since
we just picked Tomorrow's.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Always wanted to do what I did and be like me,
I get it, I get it. Well, I'm sorry after
you left.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
How about how about how about Isaiah Award uh defensive end?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
How about he gets that for the quarterback a little bit?

Speaker 3 (33:51):
How about somebody shows some pass rush against Michigan. Now,
they may not throw the ball enough for the pass
rush to really be that effective, but if you're gonna
hit one position group with the stud stick for this game,
and you guys know what I mean, right, you can
bless them and they're gonna have an awesome game.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
The defensive line, is that not the first group that
you're looking at.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
Well, first of all, there's two of their starters are hurt,
and then they haven't been spectacular all year. So what
makes you think all of a sudden they're gonna wake
up in someone else's body and ability and skill set
on Saturday and come out against Michigan and beat message.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
You're the guy two weeks ago that was telling me
this defense could be better they than they were last year.
But they're saying that pass Russ has nothing to do
with that. It just overall defense. They still a better
defense without having a better pass Russian.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I've even won mariy over now on drugs. He's hopped
up on niquil. He's got no idea where he even
is right now. So if they're good against the run
and they're don't they have to have a passage develop
as the ero gooes by some as possible in a
sod out crowd.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I just don't think.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
I just don't think in this conference that is as
big a deal because this conference is not winging the
ball and throwing the ball all around.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
This is a running conference.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Dave, all right, you have to have the defense that
goes along with what you're.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Playing day Dave. Okay.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Gregory, by the way, you can drive your own ass
to the game on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Walk from the garage. He hates what someone thinks. No,
I don't. I just hate when people say stupid stuff.

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Pick a random winner, first and last name and the
word Zeke's and name one of the nineteen players the
Greg and Mario just mentioned for their potential Darwin's dog
at the game, and we'll pick a winner and give
him fifty bucks. A Zeeks, all right, Saturday twelve thirty.
Saturday twelve thirty. Are you good to go? Are you
playing injured?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Hyped? Okay, you're hyper high both.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Okay, we'll see his Saturday at twelve thirty.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
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